Projects and sample dashboards

The projects and dashboards shown here come from my own continuously developed Home Assistant system and present solutions I use in daily life.

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Heating and buffer control panel

Heating control

The dashboard allows managing heating from multiple sources, such as off-grid photovoltaics with a buffer tank and a gas boiler. It enables changing operating modes, temperatures, and setback thresholds, and automates energy savings when the house is empty or in vacation mode. The entire setup also monitors the system's logic so that heat sources never end up working against each other at the same time.

Installation status and temperature panel

Buffer, process, and heat source dependencies

The view shows the buffer status and the operating logic of the entire heating system. It makes it easy to assess the temperature in the upper and lower parts of the buffer, informs whether energy is being used for central heating, and whether the water is at the right temperature for domestic hot water.

Blinds and everyday control panel

Blinds, groups, and scenes

The dashboard allows you to control individual blinds, groups of blinds, and home scenes. It also facilitates managing the entire home and combines manual control with automation based on the time of day, presence, and selected events in the system.

Device integrations and robot vacuum control panel

Device integrations

The dashboard allows convenient control of the robot vacuum: starting a full house clean or just selected zones, pausing work, and sending the device back to the dock. It also shows the vacuum's status and lets you adjust the cleaning power.

Heat recovery and ventilation panel

Heat recovery and ventilation

The view allows switching between manual mode and time-based or condition-based automation. It lets you control the heat-recovery fan speed, ventilation boost, and operating logic without needing to access system settings.

Lighting and glass panels dashboard

Lighting and glass panels

The dashboard replicates the physical glass switches in the home and shows the current lighting status in individual rooms. It facilitates quick light control, organizes the room layout, and provides a clear overview of what is currently turned on.

Studio dashboard for multimedia and home cinema control

Studio and multimedia

The Studio dashboard brings Yamaha receiver control, NVIDIA Shield, subwoofers, TV and multimedia apps together in one place. Selecting YouTube, Tidal or Kodi can automatically start the required devices and switch on the subwoofers without additional manual steps. Volume, blinds and home cinema scenes can also be controlled from the same dashboard, allowing the entire audio-video setup to work as one integrated system.

Internet radio and voice control

The dashboard provides quick access to favourite stations while also allowing any internet radio stream to be added. Playback can be started with one tap, automatically at a selected time, or with a voice command.

Internet radio dashboard in Home Assistant
Monitoring, alarm and presence simulation dashboard

Monitoring, alarm and presence simulation

One dashboard combines camera views, event information and arming selected zones or the entire home. The system can also control an alarm light and run presence simulation while the household is away. The camera images have been intentionally blurred for privacy.

Zigbee topology and connection diagnostics

The dashboard shows how the Zigbee network is built: which devices connect directly to the coordinator, which work through routers, and the connection quality across the entire topology.

  • network topology and routing paths
  • connection quality and LQI values
  • relationships between the coordinator, routers, and end devices
Zigbee2MQTT network map